Hearth kit



March 4, 1952 y R NELSON 2,587,880

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March 4, 1952 NELSON 2,587,880

Patented Mar. 4, 1952 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 4 Claims.

This invention is directed to improvements in hearth kits, or that type of device wherein the handles of hearth tools are all supported in up right positions.

More particularly, the invention is directed to improvements in such a structure as illustrated in Letters Patent No. 2,230,667 issued to me February 4, 1941.

An object is to simplify the construction of a hearth kit by using a minimum of material, and simplify the work of assembling accurately fabricated parts thereof, together with a saving of time in such work.

Another object is to provide as a guide for the several hearth tools, an insertable member for a hearth kit that can be readily and quickly fabricated, said member replacing portions that have heretofore been faulty by reason of being produced by casting methods.

Further, an object is to provide a member that can be produced from material of ribbon form in a continuous manner and by which also any one member is of perfect form ready for placing in the kit.

Other objects and advantages will appear in the following specification aided by the appended drawings forming part hereof.

Figure 1 is a. plan of a kit of which the present invention is a part.

Figure 2 is likewise a plan of a kit except for the top portion shown in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a transverse section of the kit, in elevation showing the structure of the present invention, produced on line 3-4 of Figures 1 and 2.

Figure 4 illustrates in perspective a member shown in both Figures 2 and 3.

Figures 5 and 6 show in perspective two separate parts shown in Figure 2.

Figure '7 shows also in perspective a structure as part of the under side of a top portion of the kit, said portion here being shown in an inverted position, and

Figure 8 is a part of the upper portion of the kit in sectional elevation as produced on line 88 of Figure 1. i

In order to set forth the present invention the drawings necessarily involve some of the parts illustrated in my Letters Patent above referred to, and such parts will be identified herein as an assistance in describing the present advancement.

In the named figures, i designates the base portion of the kit, 2 the top portion, and 3 a jacket spacing apart, and abutting those said portions, said jacket resting upon a ledge 3 Figure 3, and itself receiving the top 2. As shown in plan in the said Figure 2 the jacket forms an enclosure, the spaced ends 3 thereof engaging upstanding spaced lugs l on the base, their counterparts 2 depending from the top 2, one of which is indicated in Figure 3, bolts 1 serving to secure all in rigid relation.

Arising from the base I is a receptacle 4 for receiving one of the hearth tools, in this instance the end of a poker 5, shown in Figure 1.

Upstanding from the base is also a socket member 6, Figures 2 and 5, to receive the ends of a tongs 1, Figure 1, while at 8, Figures 2 and fl, a depressed portion 8 of the base acts as a receptacle for a shovel Ill, the handle of which is indicated in Figure 1.

The top 2 is provided with openings 1 I, 12 and I3 therethrough which lie directly above the named receptacle 4, socket member 6 and the shovel position 8, respectively, of the base, and in such positions that the handle rods of the several tools are maintained upright and paralleling each other.

Heretofore the top and base members. have been made of cast metal. These included extensions on both members adapted to meet and abut on each other as spacing means as well as to form guides, in some instances, for the hearth tools.

Disadvantages arose in this method of manufacture due to the fact that assemblying operations were diificult and delayed by reason of faulty castings and the necessity of grinding or filing such extensions to proper form.

This has been obviated by substituting for the named abutting extensions a simple insertable member of material to be clamped between the base and top and which serves to provide a guide for each of the several tools herein named.

In a study of Figures 2, 3 and 4 it will be seen that a ribbon of the desired material is, in this instance, of a general U-form.

This member comprises two cheek portions l4, [5 as extensions of a yoke portion l6. Said yoke portion IE, as formed in the present instance, creates a recess of a width equal to the spacing of the ends 3' of the named jacket as clearly shown in Figure 2, such recess being employed for the reception of a suspended brush as a hearth tool, not shown, and said recess lies at what may be termed the rear of the structure below the recess I of the top 2, Figures 1 and 3. At each side of the recess the yoke abuts both of the named lugs l of the base and abuts, as well, those on the top 2 at 2 before identified, the said member being of a height substantially equal to the distance between the top and the base so that it may be clamped in place, between them. 7

The named cheek M, in this instance extends forwardly substantially at right angles to the plane of the portion l6 and lies adjacent the socket member 8 for the tongs I. At the posi- The material at the bend I 4 may be flared near the top if desired, as shown in Figure 4- 'to receive a depending flange 2 of the top 2, Figure 8, which lies adjacent the opening 13 in,

the latter as the tongs position, see Figure 1. This flange also serves as a stabilizer as may be seen.

The opposite cheek l likewise extends forwardly, thence at its lower edge curved around the upstandin poker receptacle 4, the upper or top edge also curved around a flange 2 Fi'gure'l, depending from the topat the opening therein for-thepoker 5. extends rearwardly or toward the yoke as at I52 its free extremity abutting the main cheek portion l5 thus holding the two portions l5, l5 in spaced relation to create a full guide for the poker. An upstanding lug H on the base assists the poker receptacle in holding the cheek securely.

As is shown in Figure 4, particularly, the rear yoke-portion [6 may conveniently provide a guide for the shovel blade. That is to say, said yoke-portion may be slit at two spaced positions to create a tongue I8, Figures 2, 3 and 4, which tongue when extended being made to lie substantially as shown in Figure3, its free extremity lyin beneath the shovel opening [3 in the top 2.

Thus, when the shovel blade is lowered it will be p guided by said tongue toward its seating position at 8, the shovel-handle taking up its desired vertical position.

The assembling operation is simple, and quickly completed. After the jacket 3 has been fixed in position on the base the insertable memher is placed on the latter in the position described, whereupon the top 2 maybe dropped in place since all of the parts are in complete register. The insertion of the bolts l secures the whole, thus providing a sturdy structure throughout.

It is to be understood that the specifically described disposal of the insertable member l4, l5, I6 is applied to a kit of the form now manufactured, but that the said member may be otherwise formed to accommodate itself to any tool holding device where the receptacles for tools may have other positions, or where, also, the stabilizing parts may be other than described and shown herein.

It is conceivable that kits forthis or like purposes may be constructed when registering opens. ings for tools or; maylie at otherpositions and -7. 1115 r s n. it i e-in n n. a e 9. fined tethe particular form now employed.

An advantage in producing'any such'pliable memberis that it may. be. rapidly and accurately made by machine, and since it is accurate in measurement and finish it is, clear that fast assembling is assured.

I claim:

1'. An article of manufacture. consisting of a relatively long and narrow ribbon-like member formed to include two cheek portions spaced apart and substantially paralleling each other together with a yoke-portion joining them, part oi said yoke-portionbeing extended bQFWfien the cheek portions towardtheir freeextremities, and a, part of the yoke-portion being inwardly ex-, ended i th m a. ue an ly n t an From these positions the check acute angle to the plane of the same and directed of the cheek portions being recurved upon itself in open loop form, the other cheek portion in a part of its length being inwardly turned laterally thereof toward the recurved cheek portion.

2. In a receptacle for hearth tools, the combination of a supporting base having tool-receiving sockets therein; a top closure spaced above said base and having openings therethrough, said. openings being each aligned above one of said tool-receiving sockets; a vertical partition of ribbon-like sheet form disposed between said base and top closure, said partition being generally U-shaped in plan and having its top and bottom edges abutting said top closure and base, respectively, the arms of the U of said partition each extending. adjacent to one of said toolreceiving sockets of said base and forming a guideway to direct a tool into said socket as the tool is inserted into the receptacle through said top 7 closure, and means connecting said base and top closure and clamping said base and top closure against the bottom and top edges of said partition.

3. In a receptacle for hearth tools, the combination of a supporting base having a plurality of tool receiving sockets, two of said sockets bein spaced outwardly from the center of said base; a top closure spaced above said base and.

having openings therethrough, said openings being each aligned above one of said tool receiving sockets; a vertical partition of ribbon-like form disposed between said base and top closure, said partition being generally U-shaped in plan and having its top and bottom edges abutting said top closure and base, respectively, the arms of the U of said partition each extending adjacent one of said two sockets, one of said arms being recurved upon itself to form a, tubular tool guideway surrounding one of said two sockets, the other arm being curved inwardly toward the first mentioned arm to provide a tool guideway extendin about a portion of the other of said two sockets; means connecting said base and top closure and clamping said base and top closure against the bottom and top edges. of said partition, and an outer enclosing jacket interwosed between said base and top closure;

4. A receptacle constructed in accordance with claim 3, wherein the base of the U of said partition includes a tongue extending between the arms of the U of said partition downwardly toward said base for guiding a tool inserted through said top closure to a seating position in a third one of said tool-receiving sockets, said third socket being substantially embraced by said par--v tition as a whole.

LEWEN R. NELSON.

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